This second edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings, and professional issues. It supports trainees and professionals to identify and develop a personal style of coaching.

Its three parts cover:

The theoretical traditions underpinning coaching such as cognitive-behavioural, Gestalt and existential

Contexts and genres such as life, executive, peer, team and career coaching

Professional issues such as ethics, supervision, continuing professional development, standards and mental-health issues.

Written by leading international authors, each chapter makes links between theory and practice and includes discussion questions to facilitate reflection on the topic, further reading suggestions, and case studies. This new edition includes completely revised and updated chapters throughout, an additional emphasis on cross-cultural coaching and new chapters on Health and Wellness Coachingand Researching Coaching.

The handbook is a unique resource that has helped thousands of practitioners and trainees from a variety of professions and multi-disciplinary backgrounds, including health, education, business and management and psychology, throughout their coaching career.

Tatiana Bachkirova, Elaine Cox and David Clutterbuck

Introduction

Theoretical Perspectives

Graham Lee

The Psychodynamic approach to coaching

Helen Williams, Nick Edgerton and Stephen Palmer

Cognitive-behavioural coaching

Michael Cavanagh and Anthony Grant

The Solution-focused approach to coaching

Stephen Joseph

The Person-centred approach to coaching

Peter Bluckert

The Gestalt approach to coaching

Ernesto Spinelli

Existential coaching

Alan Sieler

Ontological coaching

David Drake

Narrative coaching

Tatiana Bachkirova

Psychological Development in adulthood and coaching

John Rowan

The Transpersonal approach to coaching

Ilona Boniwell, Carol Kauffman and Jordan Silberman

The Positive Psychology approach to coaching

Trudi Newton and Rosemary Napper

Transactional Analysis and coaching

Bruce Grimley

The NLP approach to coaching

Contexts and Genres

Bob Tschannen-Moran

Skills and Performance Coaching

Elaine Cox and Peter Jackson

Developmental Coaching

Peter Hawkins and Nick Smith

Transformational Coaching

Jon Stokes and Richard Jolly

Executive and Leadership Coaching

Andrea Ellinger, Rona Beattie and Bob Hamlin

The Manager as Coach

David Clutterbuck

Team Coaching

Rick Ladyshewsky

Peer Coaching

Anthony Grant and Michael Cavanagh

Life Coaching

Margaret Moore and Erica Jackson

Health and Wellness Coaching

Bruce Hazen and Nicole A. Steckler

Career Coaching

Geoffrey Abbott

Cross Cultural Coaching - a Paradoxical Perspective

Bob Garvey

Mentoring in a Coaching World

Professional Practice Issues

David Lane, Reinhard Stelter and Sunny Stout Rostron

The Future of Coaching as a Profession

Peter Hawkins

Coaching Supervision

Michael Cavanagh and Andrew Buckley

Coaching and Mental Health

Dianne Stober

Continuing Professional Development for Coaches

Diane Brennan and Leni Wildflower

Ethics in Coaching

Annette Fillery-Travis and Elaine Cox

Researching Coaching

Tatiana Bachkirova, David Clutterbuck and Elaine Cox

Conclusion

This seems a good reference book that offers a wide range of views from different authors. If any one of them is of particular interest further publications from them can be bought. I think that this is a bit more accademic then I would need it to be for my course.

First of all I like the description of almost all theoretical background theories in coaching, although some could be elaborated more deeply (e.g., person-centered approach). This was missing up to now.

Mr Florian Henk

Institute of Educational Psychology, Technical University of Braunschweig

Informative and highly motivating contents which covers a wide range of coaching techniques and methods. including Transactional Analysis, NLP. this book covers all aspects of coaching and will benefit those who are focusing on the wider coaching practice.

This book covers many useful tips of how to get people to make their own decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this text and thinking how some of the techniques can be included in pre-nurse training. I am asking the library to purchase a few copies and recommending this as supplemental reading.

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Elaine Cox

Elaine is a principal lecturer and the leader of programmes for the International Centre for Coaching and Leadership Development at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, where she also directs the Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring Programme and supervises doctoral students. She is an experienced researcher, author and editor and has recently co-edited the bestselling book, The Complete Handbook of Coaching, 2nd edition. Her other books with SAGE include Coaching Understood (2013) and she is also the founding editor of The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring. More About Author

Tatiana Bachkirova

Tatiana Bachkirova is Professor of Coaching Psychology and Director of the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard and Convener and Chair of the International Conference on Coaching Supervision. As an active researcher she has published many articles, book chapters and books including Developmental Coaching: Working with the Self and the SAGE Handbook of Coaching (2017). More About Author

David A. Clutterbuck

David Clutterbuck is visiting professor of coaching and mentoring at both Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes Universities. Co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and chair of the International Standards for Mentoring Programmes in Employment and a board member of the International Mentoring Association, he supervises coaches around the world. A regular amongst the list of HR Most Influentials, he is author or co-author of 55 books. He consults and lectures globally on coaching and mentoring. More About Author